Howdy!
We still have more of the hot and humid summer left, but it sure feels nice for a break in the heat today with the windows opened! Hope everyone is okay after TS Debby passed through NC last week. For those in the Triangle area, I highly recommend attending Paperhand’s AWESOME new summer show that I saw this past weekend, plus, join Jess and I and others for the call in day of action on Friday! Much more below!
Weekends beginning Aug 9 – Sept 29, Paperhand Puppet’s Earth & Sky: A Great Gathering For All Beings
The Forest Theatre, 123 South Boundary Street, Chapel Hill
Earth & Sky is a celebration of Life on our planet. It’s an invitation to listen and to transform ourselves into the protectors and stewards of the world. The show is a Gathering for All Beings; a council to find solutionary paths forward. More information and tickets here.
Utility Justice Week of Action August 12-18
Hosted by 350 Network Council and People’s Action, across the country, we’re demanding clean and affordable energy for everyone!
*Ensure reliable and affordable energy for all
*Transition to 100% clean renewable energy
*Health and safety for ratepayers
*Energy systems run by and for the people, with democratic ownership and decision-making
August 16, Call In Day: Stop Manchin’s Energy Permitting Reform Act!
12 pm, online
August 19, No Dirty Deals, Part Three: Carbon Capture Storage
5 pm, online
Learn about the real risks of false climate solutions like liquified natural gas, biomass, and carbon capture and how to push for better solutions with panelists Basav Sen, Eliose Reid, and Jane Patton. Register here.
T-15 has announced 3 community meetings in August
Duke Energy wants to build two new methane gas plants in Person County, which would require a new 45-mile pipeline to transport gas called the T-15 Reliability Project.
Open Houses
Tuesday, Aug. 20, 5—7 pm, Oakhaven Properties, 1434 Dibrell Rd, Pelham, NC
Wednesday, Aug. 21 5—7 pm, Yanceyville Museum of Art (Municipal Services Building), 158 East Church Street, Yanceyville, NC
Tele-Town Hall
Thursday, Aug. 22 7 pm, (855) 756-7520; enter ext.110791#
Thursday, Aug 22 Hyco Gas Plants + Pipeline Community Meeting before the virtual call
5:45 pm, Ceffo Fire Department, 1291 Concord Ceffo Road, Roxboro
Learn more about the potential impacts of these projects — free supper provided! For the first hour, you will have a chance to connect with other community members, ask questions, and find out how to help stop these projects from being built. Around 7 pm we will call into a virtual meeting Dominion Energy is hosting on the T-15 pipeline and have a chance to ask them questions. Register here.
August 24, POWHR 10-Year Anniversary Gathering
4-7 pm, Doe Creek Farm, Pembroke, VA
Join Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR) and allies! Over the past ten years, we have built a strong, strategic movement of people across the MVP route who care deeply about each other, our mountains, and water. Register here.
August 29, Dangers of SSEP Community Meeting
5:30 -7:30 pm, Davidson County Public Library, 602 S Main St., Lexington, NC
Join community safety and health advocates to learn more about the threat of the proposed Transco Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP) gas pipeline and the gas compressor station expansion in Lexington. In-person registration here. Zoom registration here.
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August 29, 350 Action Elections Kickoff Webinar
7pm, online
350 Action will talk about their partnerships with Seed the Vote and Environmental Voter Project and how you can plug into their programs in key swing states. Register here.
Election season! With the climate crisis we’re in, it is critical we elect climate leaders in local, state, and federal offices! Election day is November 5. Early voting is Oct 17-Nov 2. Find out who is running for office in your district here. Find your sample ballot (not available quite yet), but you can check your record, what districts you’re in, and where you vote here. Remember to vote on the front and back pages of the ballot!
August 30, The Smell of Money: Film Screening & Conversation
4-6 pm, 5517 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd., Durham
Hosted by Social Coalition for Social Justice at their office with panelists Jamie Berger, Rania Masri, and Maia Hutt. Register here.
September 17, Impact Talks: Investing in Climate Justice — Building Equity through the Clean Energy Transition
12-1 pm, online
Join a panel hosted by Self-Help Credit Union and Calvert Impact, where we will explore diverse strategies for investing in climate justice and amplifying your green impact. Register here.
September 26, Transforming Global Economies: From Extraction to Regeneration in a Just Transition
11 am, online
Hosted by WECAN during Climate Week in NYC, global women leaders will spotlight a Just Transition and economic models, solutions, and frameworks based on community-led solutions, feminist economics, Indigenous knowledge, beyond growth economies, and ancient concepts of reciprocity with the Earth and the web of life.
Register here.
September 28, Indivisible No More
10:30 am, State Capital Building, Raleigh
SAVE THE DATE. #ThousandRibbonSkirtMarch, hosted by 17 Rivers North Carolina American Indian Movement. More info soon.
October 18-20, NC Environmental Justice Network’s 25th Anniversary Environmental Justice Summit
Franklinton Center, Whitakers, NC
More info and register here.
TAKE ACTION!
Submit a comment to the NC Utility Comm about Duke Energy’s proposed Carbon Plan. Let them know you want Duke to invest in affordable, renewable energy, not more gas and nuclear! Be sure to reference Docket E-100 Sub 190 when you submit your comment here.
Tell FERC: No Transco (Southeast Supply Energy Project) SSEP here.
Tell Citi: Don’t Invest in Environmental Racism here.
President Biden: Stop Formosa Plastics — Protect St James Parrish here.
Submit a Comment to Reject the Line 5 Pipeline here.
Burning forests as fuel in power plants is not a climate solution. The biomass industry wants you to believe that it’s clean and carbon neutral. But biomass emits more carbon than coal and produces dirty air pollution. Ask your legislators to support the Forest Biomass Emissions Act here.
Families in South Memphis are already overburdened with industrial pollution, but Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to put another dirty gas plant in thier backyards. Tell President Biden to stand up for environmental justice by stopping this dangerous fossil fuel plant here!
ARTICLES and RECORDINGS
Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year by Jonathan Watts here.
Footing the power bills for AI is anything but smart by Sophie Loeb & Michelle Carter here.
Blog by POWHR’s Lief Hurt, Cops, Williams Co., & Our Future here.
Deborah Kushner’s Appalachia’s Mountain Valley Pipeline Crime Scene Murdered Mountainshere.
Climate change has forced America’s oldest Black town to higher ground by Jake Bittle here.
Debby Drenched the Southeast. Climate Change Is Making Storms Like This Even Wetterby Lisa Sorg and Amy Green here.
Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates by Nina Lakhani here.
Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: “Talk Is Cheap” by Wen Stephenson here.
What Does Military Readiness Mean in a Warming World? by Kate Aronoff here.
My family spent four glorious days camping in Jasper. A week later, we watched the town burn by Annalise Klingbeil here.
“As I write this, Calgary is blanketed in a thick, choking smoke. I don’t recall ever being kept inside as a child because the air was unsafe to breathe, but that has been my toddler’s experience for numerous days of every summer he has known. One of his first words was ‘smoke.’”
Why a warming climate increase flood threats by Brad Panovich here.
The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s by Kate Yoder here.
Green Industrial Policy’s Unfinished Business: A Publicly Managed Fossil Fuel Wind-Down by Kate Aronoff here.
Documents, Whistleblowers, and Public Comments Are Clear: Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained. By Amy Westervelt here.
John Beard from Port Arthur Community Action Network in TX, working to stop the expansion of petrochemicals, is featured in this short video In the Belly of the Beast here.
In the Developing Field of Climate Psychology, ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Is a Rational Response by Nina Dietz here.
Lumbee tribe member on the fight for indigenous environmental justice here.
Interview with Ryan Emmanuel, author, environmental scientist, and a member of the Lumbee tribe, about his book On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice.
So much going on with the many articles this month! Thanks for reading and for taking action!
Peace and love for our beautiful Earth, Karen